Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Results: I Spy... Temporal Anomalies

Here are the results for the I Spy...
Temporal Anomalies minigame, which finished on 24th December 2008. I have listed all the nominations in order, even the ones that didn't score because they were never verified.

I’m
not counting the Timecop adaptation
nor Alan Moore’s Timewar since I don’t
deem these to be a superhero comics. The Dredd comic was also marginal, but I
have allowed it. If someone had verified, I would have allowed any of these
though.

the lyrics of a song:Back in Time by Johnny Colla (Bezman)If I Could Turn Back Time by Cher (dj
i/o = 3, verified: Bezman = 2)

Final Scores

Bezman
= 3+1+1+1+1+1+3+3+2+1+2+2+1+1+3+1+1+1+1+2 = 32

dj
i/o = 2+2+2+2+3+2+3+2+2+2+3 = 25

Katherine
= 2+2+2+2+1+2+1+2+2+1 = 17

Jose
Zagal = 2+2+1+2+2+2+1+2+2 = 16

Peter:
3+3+2 = 8

caller
#6 = 2 = 2

Winner: Bezman

Please
let me know which “victory link” you want inscribed on the Virtual Cup in the
comments!

A few scattered thoughts...

Using the Wikipedia
et al... this is always going to be an issue. But as a resource available for
everyone, I don’t want to ban its use, so the challenge will be finding targets
which it doesn’t help with... I shall mull this and see what I can come up with.

For some reason,
Katherine’s estimate of her score is 2 points higher than I make it in the
tally – it makes me worry that I missed something... (It’s the difference
between 3 and 4th place for her and Jose, so please let me know if I
made a mistake).

As far as I’m
concerned, a console game is still a computer game (are you really going to
claim there isn’t a computer in that console?)

There are indeed two
film versions of The Time Machine,
more if you count TV-adaptations... Because what Bezman and Katherine did here
in dividing the spoils is in the spirit of the game, I am going to allow them
both to score.

Shadow of Destiny – really unusual game. Glad to see
people know about this one!

Time Slip – easily the most interesting thing to
come out of Net Yaroze. I had lots of fun with this time travelling snail!

I can’t believe that
no X-men comics were nominated for
this! For shame!

I disagree with
Katherine about A Christmas Carol – Ebenezer
is shown the future, then changes it. That’s a temporal anomaly of some kind,
surely! And being published 52 years earlier than HG Wells' The Time Machine, this might be the oldest temporal anomaly in print!

For the next I Spy
game (which won’t be for a few months – I have something else in mind for the
next minigame), I would consider coming down to single nominations each day –
what do the players of this round think about that?

And
I loved the song lyrics entries here – it made me chuckle most heartily!

Thanks
for playing everyone! I enjoyed reading the transcript greatly.

A new minigame will begin in January 2009.

Update

Corrected the scoring error where dj i/o was assigned the verification of Chrono Trigger instead of Katherine.

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